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A portrait of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Image: Franck Vervial/Flickr
Haiti, Cuba, and the price of independence
Rick Salutin | "Haiti has become a baseball thrown between foreign diplomats" is a good choice of metaphor. Imperialism is the U.S. national pastime.
Blog
F35s. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Lockheed Martin and Boeing have the edge for Canada's new fighter jet purchase
Brent Patterson | Challenging next year's decision to commit spending $76.8 billion on new warplanes includes understanding the business logic of NATO.
Blog
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Canadian-made armoured vehicle stops human rights defenders in Colombia
Brent Patterson | Questions persist about the role of Canadian-built light armoured vehicles in human rights violations abroad.
News
A colourful street in Cuba. Image: Doug88888/Flickr
Biden's Trump-like stand on Cuba will only make things worse
Ish Theilheimer | As he continues to use Trump's tactics to push Cuba toward asphyxiation, what is Biden's endgame?
Columnists
Justice for Berta Cáceres. Image: Daniel Cima/CIDH/Flickr
As the climate crisis intensifies, so do attacks on land defenders
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Finally, on Monday, the Honduran Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found Roberto David Castillo guilty of ordering the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres.
News
Assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Image: Karla Sepúlveda/ Presidencia República Dominicana​/Flickr
Canada's indirect responsibility for the assassination of Haiti's president
Yves Engler | Jovenel Moïse was a violent and corrupt tyrant. While his passing may not elicit much sympathy, the Haitian president's assassination should not be celebrated.
Blog
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Q'eqchi' community displaced by Guatemalan military base wants their land back
Brent Patterson | Where does Canada stand on a Q'eqchi' community seeking its land back from a Guatemalan military base where 90 Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves?
Podcast
Image: Dr. Vandana Shiva. Used with Permission
COVID, capitalism, climate: the way forward
Victoria Fenner, Resh Budhu | Ep. 6 of the Courage My Friends podcast concludes with Dr. Vandana Shiva, internationally renowned eco-feminist, scientist and author.
Blog
HMS Defender, in one piece, as it still is, thank goodness. Image: Hammersfan/Creative Commons.
Why Britain should build Yachty McYachtface
David J. Climenhaga | Not much good can come from post-imperial naval misadventures -- but some ideas are definitely worse than others.
Blog
Climate change protest. Image: John Englart/Flickr.
Are world leaders waking up to the urgency of the climate crisis?
David Suzuki | Let's hope G7 members and all world leaders start to adopt rather than co-opt the environmental movement's language and take the commitment to "build back better" seriously.
Columnists
Public health initiative in rural Karnataka, India. Image credit: Trinity Care Foundation/Flickr
Delta variant largely 'a developing country problem'
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The gap between the rich and the poor is the result of vaccine apartheid. While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe.
Columnists
Justin Trudeau at the NATO summit in Brussels this month. Image credit: The Office of the Prime Minister
Why the U.S. is so keen on NATO
Duncan Cameron | Originally conceived to block Soviet expansionism, the dissolution of the Soviet Union meant the collective security alliance was obsolete. Yet, the U.S. claims international security relies on it.
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